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...Avenue to show their finery in pleasant idleness, she was probably alone in her reflections. The opulent look of a million people had sprung not only from a system but from a state of mind-the state of mind which took for granted everyone's place in the Easter Parade...
...gabled Chateau Henri IV in the Forest of Fontainebleau near Paris, once the summer home of French kings, lay hollow and still over the Easter weekend. Outside, a group of British Tommies in shirtsleeves played soccer. Inside, in the dank, cobwebbed rooms, only one officer could be accounted for; he was sweating over a regimental payroll...
Paris, basking in the fine Easter sunshine, was invaded by hordes of eager tourists. As they took in the sights or eyed the smart Parisian girls in their spring dresses, they were accosted by furtive "characters who hissed: "Have you dollars?" Most of the time, the answer was a blunt no. The bottom had fallen out of the currency black market...
Psychiatrics notwithstanding, most Viennese theatergoers took Harvey to their hearts as simply as a child takes his Easter bunny. Restaurant-keepers, says Vienna's Elwood Dowd (Actor Oscar Karlweis), are constantly thrusting gift packages at him. Most of them contain cabbage and carrots for the kindly rabbit who nightly helps his friend to find good in his fellow man. Even the Polish Minister seemed to have fallen sway to the rabbit's charm. At a dinner at the legation recently, he called Karlweis aside for a vodka. He poured out two glasses. "One for you," he told Vienna...
...Easter Monday 33 years ago a pale, impassioned schoolmaster named Patrick Pearse marched out of the door of Dublin's General Post Office, hauled a flag of green, white and orange to the peak of the flagpole and in a ringing voice hurled a challenge at his British overlords: "Supported by her exiled children in America and by gallant allies in Europe ... Ireland strikes in full confidence of victory . . . We hereby proclaim the Irish Republic as a Sovereign Independent State...